No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTTrue individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
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Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them.
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Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
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Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.
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All of our people all over the country-except the pure-blooded Indians-are immigrants or descendants of immigrants, including even those who came over here on the Mayflower.
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We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.
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There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
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True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
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Go for the moon. If you don’t get it, you’ll still be heading for a star. Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of the creative effort.
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It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that it have free and independent labor unions.
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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn’t, do something else.
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Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.
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It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
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The loneliest feeling in the world is when you think you are leading the parade and turn to find that no one is following you. No president who badly misguesses public opinion will last very long.
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The whole world is one neighborhood.
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